The Challenge: Design and build a car capable of crossing the vast and imposing continent of Australia using only sunlight as fuel and to prove it, in the spirit of friendly competition against others with the same goal.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Weather is 60 or 70km ahead of the rest of the Team.We started off the race as prepared as we could be.The forcasting went really well. The only issue was with the Intermet hardware, but after speaking with Intermet to troubleshoot hardware problems this was fixed.We have had several successful weather balloon launches so far and launch them 4 times per day – at 7am, 11am, 3pm, and 7pm.The UAV has yet to be launched yet, but once we reach Southern Australia we will begin launching it.There was a 250 km wall of clouds that slowed us down quite a bit before Alice Springs.Right now we’re getting about 25 or 30 mph headwinds that are slowing Continuum.After seeing the control stop leader board in Alice Springs we realized that they aren’t doing all that badly especially considering the one day that we lost in Darwin. Everyone is excited at how well Continuum is performing after the accident and we hope to continue passing other teams in South Australia!

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The Challenge: Design and build a car capable of crossing the vast and imposing continent of Australia using only sunlight as fuel and to prove it, in the spirit of friendly competition against others with the same goal.

This BLOG updates as teams publish their contributions around the world.